Former Deputy Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organisation
Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura in an interview with the Athens-Maceonian News Agency (ANA)
With two million visitors arriving each year – or nearly 10 pct of the total number of tourist arrivals for the whole country – as well as frequent first-place rankings in surveys of favourite holiday destinations, the Greek island of Santorini has emerged as one of the top tourism destinations worldwide.
By Justine Frangouli-Argyris I was born on Lefkas, an island located between Italy and mainland Greece in the deep blue Ionian Sea. Lefkada, as it is known in Greece, is one of seven islands that comprise the complex of the Ionian Islands and is situated a few kilometers south of cosmopolitan Corfu.